New York New York: The City in Art and Literature – Introduction by Brooke Astor – Copyright 2000 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Good condition! Looks new! Dust cover perfect – Minor water damage, barely noticeable. No tears or creases.
Amazing juxtaposition of Art and Literature on the perfect backdrop; New York!
Contents include:
- a Foreword by William Lach
- intro by Brook Astor
- Henry Adams – from History of the United States of America…
- Djuna Barnes – from Becoming Intimate with the Bohemians
- Elizabeth Bishop – Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore
- Anatole Broyard – from Kafka Was the Rage
- Truman Capote – from Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- Willa Cather – from Coming, Eden Bower!
- Stephen Crane – from Opium’s Varied Dreams
- Willem de Kooning – from Willem de Kooning Remembers Mark Rothko
- Charles Dickens – from American Notes
- Joan Didion from Goodbye to All That
- E. L. Doctorow from Ragtime
- John Dos Passos from Manhattan Transfer
- F. Scott Fitzgerald from the Great Gatsby
- Margret Fuller from Farewell
- Allen Ginsberg New York Blues
- Nikki Giovanni from The New Yorkers
- Lorenz Har from Manhattan
- Oscar Hijuelos from The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
- William Dan Howells from Hazard of New Fortunes
- Langston Hughes Juke Box Love Song
- Jane Jacobs from The death and Life of Great American Cities
- Henry James from Washington Square
- James Welcon Joans from the Autobigraphy of an Ex-colored Man
- Alfred Kazin from New York Jew
- Jack Kerouac from On the Road
- Emma Lazarus The New Colossus in Which I Love You
- Li-Young Lee from The City
- Mary McCarthy from The Group
- Edna St. Vincent Millay Recuerdo
- Joseph Mitchell from The Rivermen
- Toni Morrison from Jazz
- Ogden Nash I Want New York
- Frank O’Hara Steps
- O. Henry from An Unfinished Story
- Edgar Allan Poe from A Letter to The Columbia Spy, May 27, 1844
- Ezra Pound N.Y.
- Jacob Riis from How the Other Half Lives
- Damon Runyon from The Bloodhounds of Broadway
- Carl Sandburg Trinity Place
- James Schuyler Wonderful World
- Isaac Bashevis Singer from Enemies, A Love Story
- Betty Smith from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Edith Wharton from The Age of Innocence
- E. B. White from Here is New York
- Walt Whitman Mannahatta